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IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-BAGS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, E. A.'G. RQULSTONE, of Roxbury,'in` the county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Travelling-Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connectio'n with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, isa description of my invention suiicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it. A A

The invention relates to the manner of constructing the framesV of travelling-bags and applying them to the exihle bag-forming material, having particular reference to strengthening the frame at the corners thereof, and giving to said corners a neat appearance, and to simplifying the application of the frame to the flexible bag material. l i 4 The nature of the invention will be more clearly understood after description and examination of the drawings, in which A denotes a cross-section of'a portion of a frame and body, made and connected in accordance with my invention; B an outer view of the corner; C a crosssection of the frame through thc corner rivet. a denotes the angle frame, havi-ngthe body-applying edge turned over, as seen at b. c denotes the flexible bag-forming material, which may be formell with or without a lining, las circumstances require. The edge to he fixed to the frame I first apply vover one edge of a strip, d, A(as seen at A,) preferabiy'securing it to this Vstrip by stitches passing throughvtvhe strip and leather. This strip is o'f such width as to cause it to fit tightly between' the bottom of thegroove formed bythe turned-over'edge b of the. frame and the inner surface or side wall f o'f-said frame, and after applying the edge ofthe iexible materiaiA to the strip I'press said strip into place, as seen at A, riveting it to the frame, if desirable, or forming a bead or projection from the surface ji'just below the' strip, to hold it in position. Then by drawing the material outwardly from the frame, informing thehag, it will be seen that the iexible material is not only connected to the` frame so,as to 'ne undctaehable therefrom, by wear or strain, at any point along its length, but also that the bent-over edge of the frame imparts a finish at'the line of connection between the'body and frame.

In bag frames recently devised by myself and by others it has been proposed, and to some extent practised, to cut out the material where the corner is formed, so as to simplify the bending of the metal into a Vneat and finished corner. As this construction, however, 'weakens said corner, and this at aY point on the frame most exposed to wear, I turn down the whole or-part of the'triangularpiece g, made by cutting the slit h, and overlapping and riveting together the tail-pieces `t'.- This triangular' piece is turned down against the inner surface of the frame before the metal isbent to form the corn-cr, and this' bending sets the piece tightly against'the said inner surface and holds it firmly thereto, thus reinforcing the frarnsat the corner by the'goring piece madeiu slitting the metal to facilitate the formation of the corner.

I claim the manner of connecting the flexible bag material to the frame by means of the strip d and the frame groove b, the strip and clothor leather being .first united, and then connected to the frame, as herein Aset forth and described. l

Also, the reinforcement of the corner, by leaving the goring piece gih the frame, and -turning it down against and so' as to form part of the wall piecef, as herein set forth and described. v

' E. A. G. ROULSTONE.

Witnesses:

M. W. FROTHINGHAM,

Finnois GoULD. 

